Letter: Writer questions need for school during snowstorm

As a parent of a small child, I was rather puzzled why the Stevens Point School District decided that during a winter storm warning issued by the National Weather Service (on Jan. 30), it was important enough to endanger our children and the staff of the schools and keep the schools open. My daughter is 7, and does not miss much school unless she is very sick. I am also not one of those people that "hate" driving when there is a little bit of snow. But the logic behind keeping school in session during a storm defies me.

When they issue this warning, the snow is coming and we are getting it. There wasn't a "chance of snow." There wasn't an "advisory, it was a winter storm warning. So it was more important to send our children to school in weather that was far from safe for what reason?

I really feel that the school district really needs to assess their priorities. They need to build in snow days and they need to realize that we do live in Wisconsin - we will have days where the weather is so bad that we can't have school.

If the forecast had merely called for snow that would have been one thing. But the National Weather Service - that watches the weather for the nation - implements a winter storm warning. That means a winter storm is coming so be prepared. But now we will deal with waiting for our children to (hopefully) get off the bus safely without a mechanical malfunction or an accident.

I think I am safe in saying that the superintendent doesn't have a child in the schools here. He might have thought differently about sending his child out in this sort of weather.

Pam Swope

Stevens Point

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Letter: Writer questions need for school during snowstorm

As a parent of a small child, I was rather puzzled why the Stevens Point School District decided that during a winter storm warning issued by the National Weather Service (on Jan.

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